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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just upheld a ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects some 600,000 unauthorized immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation…
House Republicans are scrambling to find their Nancy Pelosi. Soon to be in the minority, Republicans are currently leaderless. House Speaker Paul Ryan announced his retirement in April, and Republicans are in search of a minority leader — the position…
It’s been a bad week. The sun sets at like 3 pm now. Amazon is coming to Queens. I keep forgetting to call my gynecologist back to dispute an $800 insurance charge; now they’ve sent me another letter about it.…
In April, The New Yorker highlighted the historic number of women running for office—a wave that, even then, was striking for its diversity. Tuesday’s midterm elections saw that wave sweep over Washington. Margaret Talbot, surveying the scene, put it simply:…
This weekend, New York’s thriving repertory houses offer major retrospectives of three great directors who are also among my personal favorites (you can find links below to some pieces I’ve written about them). But those who aren’t in the city…
“Sally4Ever,” on HBO, is a midlife-crisis sitcom intrigued by all that oozes. Nothing human is alien to it, not suppurating psychic wounds, and especially not bodily functions. It distills human nature to its coarse extremes. In a moment of disability…
